Belmont, NY 14813 Frost Dates
14813, near Belmont, NY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/04, about 249 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 163 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Belmont, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Belmont's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/04 isn't a guarantee
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Belmont against the rest of the dataset
About 163 days separate Belmont's last and first frost, putting it 31,487 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NY, it ranks 985 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 14813: local microclimates, on what one yard in Belmont can differ from the 14813 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Belmont's frost date answer different questions.